• Did humans influence wildfires in Siberia much earlier than previously thought?

      they have, as there has been little long-term data available for this region. Researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute have now reconstructed the regional fire dynamics in Yakutia over the last 10,000 years

    • Schedules

      Neumayer-Station (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Neumayer-Station-III Kohnen Station Arctic AWIPEV Aircraft Flight schedule Polar 5 'Polar 5' in Bremerhaven (Photo: Alfred Wegener Institut) Flight planning [...] Schedules Ships Timetables Polarstern Auf zur Neumayer-Station (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Scientific coordinator (Dr. Ingo Schewe) 2025 2026 longterm plan until 2027 Heincke Heincke-Expedition HE-408 [...] Kristina Baer, AWI) Scientific coordinator (Dr. Ingo Schewe) 2025 2026 Small vessels Mya II (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut / Florian Lange) Scient.Coordinator Uthörn : (Dr. Michael Klages) Scient.Coordinator

    • LCA

      funded Life Cycle Assessment of land-based seaweed cultivation for packaging material - 1 (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut) Discover Insights into Environmental Impact of Algae-Based Industries with PhD Karina [...] Ecology and Economy: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Insights into Algae-Based Industries" at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research. Seminar will be on October 5th at 10:00 AM. PhD Karina [...] project activities will take place at various institutions, including the University of Latvia, the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, and the Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences.

    • Stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet controls CO2 uptake capacity of the Southern Ocean

      sediment core from the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean has provided a research team from the Alfred Wegener Institute, the University of Oldenburg and the American Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory with

    • Global Plastics Treaty Negotiations: Success is still possible

      an agreement, the new chairperson must urgently reform INC procedures, argue Melanie Bergmann (Alfred Wegener Institute), Paul Einhäupl, Linda Del Savio (Research Institute for Sustainability), and Annika

    • UN Plastics Treaty

      Busan (Photo: Annika Jahnke, UFZ) UN negotiations in Geneva for a binding plastic treaty (Photo: Alfred-Wegener-Institut/Melanie Bergmann) The Global Plastic Tide Taking Part from the Beginning: Dr. Melanie

    • AWI statements

      Statements 30 January 2026 Cargo loss at Neumayer Station III Statement of the Alfred Wegener Institute 11 June 2024 In opposition to a boycott of Israeli science and research Statement of the Alliance

    • non-peer reviewed articles

      2008/09 Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung in der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft, Chapter 2: Ausgewählte Forschungsthemen, pages 32-35 or: Research Highlights 2010 Alfred-Wegener-Institut

    • Books and In-books

      Grosse , A. Morgenstern , E. Pfeiffer , V. Rachold and L. Schirrmeister (editors), Germany, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, ISBN: 978-3-88808-714-1, pp 166-171

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